Articles about Showmax
Star baker
Koek (Cake) star Cindy Swanepoel speaks to DQ about this award-winning South African drama about a housewife who is thrust into Cape Town’s criminal underworld, and why it’s time to put Afrikaans series in the spotlight.
Deeper underground
Subterranea creator Brian Munene introduces DQ to this groundbreaking Showmax sci-fi series and explains why the story will resonate beyond its Kenyan setting.
High-profile performance
British actor Charlotte Hope reflects on her taxing experience playing a serial killer profiler in South African drama Catch Me A Killer, why the job got under her skin and being surprised on set.
Catching the eye
Kowalski Films’ Simon Howley, executive producer of South African true crime drama Catch Me a Killer, recalls the origins of the series and outlines one memorable interrogation scene involving the show’s protagonist, serial killer profiler Micki Pistorius.
Mysterious Girl
The creative team behind The Girl from St Agnes take DQ inside the making of the eight-part murder mystery, the first original drama from South African streamer Showmax.
Rewriting history
James Bond screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis imagine a world in which the Nazis occupy Britain in the BBC’s adaptation of Len Deighton’s alternative-history novel SS-GB. DQ visits the set.